Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situations with a cold fury that did not exist before." When a group of Arkansas' Presbyterian ministers protested the closing of Little Rock's four high schools (TIME, Sept. 22), Southern Baptist Faubus accused them of being leftists, "brainwashed by left-wingers and Communists." Not even a stern protest from Methodist clergymen could make him change his mind. He heated up the air waves of an Arkansas TV network with the charge that the Supreme Court decision promises "the risk of disorder and violence that could result in the loss of life-perhaps yours...
Great Britain's last flickering hope of taking the America's Cup died yesterday in the lashing backwash of Columbia's stern...
...maidens for sale in Arabia's slave markets. The British, lords of India and protectors of Muscat, ended this racket. Since World War II smuggling has been Gwadar's chief industry. As the new republics of Pakistan and India, trying to husband their precious foreign exchange, clapped stern restrictions on luxury imports, the enterprisers of Gwadar took to their dhows to keep Karachi's shops well filled with the restricted items. When the Pakistanis tried to check the flow with a fleet of patrol boats, the smugglers installed powerful diesel engines in their dhows, sped to secret...
...great orchestras, has appeared often at Milan's La Scala and in Vienna. A superb technician, Maazel invariably impresses older musicians with the vast amount of music he carries about in his head and the maturity of his musical ideas. "He is not sensational," said Violinist Isaac Stern after playing with him recently. "He is a little better than that. He is good...
...tippy-toes, security-conscious situation, the Times within a year zoomed past its only rival, the stodgy, pro-government Cyprus Mail, in circulation and influence. To prove army inefficiency, Foley printed stories on how his reporters had bluffed their way past guards into top-secret areas. When stern former Governor Sir John Harding put out a law giving him the right to suspend any newspaper without cause, Foley sent 150 protest telegrams to editors and such political leaders as Churchill and Attlee. In retaliation, the government fined him for publishing news likely to cause "alarm and despondency." Foley...